Meanwhile Saul still breathed threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest
but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.
though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;
You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,
For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.
Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).
in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.